The Buddha made extensive use of the scientific method of examining empirical evidence, and also discredited claims of things that were not obsrvable (e.g., look for where your 'self' exists can you find it in your body? outside your body? etc.) and he also (purportedly) made claims that cannot be ...

Suppose there are two people and one vows not to kill and the other makes no such vow. If neither of them kill, who is the virtuous one? The teachings clearly say that a person who makes the vow is more virtuous because it creates a special intent in their mind. By "the teachings" in this case, I m...

Suppose there are two people and one vows not to kill and the other makes no such vow. If neither of them kill, who is the virtuous one? Interesting question. Personally, I think that if someone arrives at a mode of action through their own insight, then that is superior to the one who is following...

The Buddha made extensive use of the scientific method of examining empirical evidence, and also discredited claims of things that were not obsrvable (e.g., look for where your 'self' exists can you find it in your body? outside your body? etc.) and he also (purportedly) made claims that cannot be ...

"form is emptiness emptiness is form" so why would you have a problem with atta having form to begin with anyways? I don't. If it has name and form, it is nāmarūpa. edit: and if it doesn't have form, then it seems that basically what you are calling "True Self" is identical to emptiness. Which view...

But Son of Buddha, your understanding is refuted in the very sutra you quote: Form, O monks, is not-self; if form were self, then form would not lead to affliction and it should obtain regarding form: 'May my form be thus, may my form not be thus'; If form were self, you would have some degree of c...

...you don't seem to be able to discern the seriously distorted picture you are painting and the reasons why Buddhism takes a different view. :smile: I take it you speak for "Buddhism" then? ...but that he preferred to keep his focus solely on that which would relieve the afflictions when it came t...

oh dear. cleared for take off :alien: Hi Futerko, I am sure that you would be quite surprised to learn that you could be plucked off this globe and put down in thousands of other similar planets, and not even realize that you have left home, until you try to find your family and address (which will...

the possibility of abuse for one, and also the incentives of those subjects to work for the benefit of others. Surely at some level, the subjects need to have some kind of investment in their own product? There is less incentive for abuse in my model than in the democratic one, where a fear of losi...

do you believe that nirvana is somehow real, existing outside the mind? It's just pure appearance to a pure mind. It isn't a matter if nirvana "existing" anywhere, inside or outside the mind. Nirvana is awareness arising in perfect clarity. Mind is merely the experience of that clarity free of delu...

Richard Dawkins - voted the World's Number One public intellectual in a magazine poll recently - is on the record as saying that human creative abilities such as art and culture - and really, science ought to be included in this - are really just the by-products of the fortuitous development of a l...

It seems to me that if the subjects are not the shareholders, this raises a number of issues - the possibility of abuse for one, and also the incentives of those subjects to work for the benefit of others. Surely at some level, the subjects need to have some kind of investment in their own product?

omg, the comparative information about the state of the economy, and what economists think is reality maybe scientific, insensitive, deluded, scientific fact, clueless, or lies depending on your POV. What is so... do you know what it is like not to have enough money to wash your clothes at the laun...

I found Gampopa's "Jewel Ornament of Liberation" to be a good introductory text for those wanting to acquaint themselves with the foundations of Kagyu practice without the introductory preamble. This one here. The bible of Kagyu practice. http://www.amnyitrulchung.org/teachings/materials/pdf/Gampop...

not only are all arguments about the nature of reality flawed, but so are all descriptions. what the lady said. It is not a description, it is intended as a proof that there can be a Real that is beyond all predicates. Simply put, if one can think of a real beyond all predicates, there is a real be...